Wilson Superintendent Gets Raise, New Five-year Contract

July 14, 1988|The Morning Call

The Wilson Area School Board last night renewed Superintendent Albert Zarbatany's contract for five years.

By a unanimous vote, with board members Thomas Hockin and Raymond Rawson absent, the board fixed Zarbatany's salary at $57,250. The district's 1988-1989 budget raised his salary 8.02 percent from $53,005.

Zarbatany will begin his 33rd year with the Wilson school district this fall. He was a teacher for 17 years, middle school principal for eight years and served as superintendent for the past eight years.

In other business, the board agreed to purchase two new buses for about $56,000, an expenditure that was included in the 1988-1989 spending plan.

Eastern Bus Sales of Norristown was awarded a $36,283 contract for a 72- passenger school bus and a 19-to- 22-passenger bus will be purchased through M.A. Brightbill Body Works of Lebanon. Both vehicles are 1988 models.

In addition, the board accepted the resignation of middle school Principal Susan Redcay, who said she is leaving the district for personal reasons.

Redcay, who will leave her $39,400-a-year job at the end of the summer, "has done an excellent job in her three years" with the district, according to Zarbatany.

He noted that "her expertise in supervising instruction and her understanding of and orientation toward the middle school students are two of her most outstanding attributes, which will be difficult to match in a successor."

The position has been advertised and those interested have until Aug. 1 to apply.